by mohamed sami gattoufi
Canvas
h: 70 w: 50 d: 3 (cms).
This artwork deals with the concept of the birth of a genius, thinker and a philosopher. In fact, I believe that real intellectuals have to experience and see the melancholic nature of life in order to come up with the greatest ideas. Philosophers, for me, are the real eyes of the human species. This artwork comes out as a scene of an underworld where everything is part of the ruins. Most of the ruins are allegories of some of the most fundamental ideas humans had. In the middle of the canvas we notice the philosopher rising from the ashes. The buried hand is an allegory to the famous quote of the great philosopher Nietzsche : "God is dead". In fact, the philosopher, the thinker and the artist are the real successors of the gods.
The artwork was a challenge to me, since I made it in time of desperate need : I didn't have enough art supplies to paint what I imagined. So, I made a decision to paint this artwork with only three (3) paint colours : Red, Brown and Orange. These colours helped me to achieve the "angry" feeling of the thinker against the reality he found himself in. Then I managed to add some yellow paint in some details.